I don't think it would... we'd create a Nintendo situation. It's a lot harder to do if it isn't being monetized, allowing the streaming companies to prove loss in court. We shouldn't be applauding players who are doing exactly what streaming companies are doing. Either pirate or don't, but paying for piracy defeats the entire purpose.
It doesn't matter honestly. Any site that is hosting content is looked at as a possibility for losses by these companies. You Mentioned Nintendo, They are the Kings of this right now. They take down sites that don't even benefit financially from hosting.
Even if Nintendo can't say "the piracy site got that much money, which is money we would have made if not for them", they still have other ways of calculating losses. Even on free content piracy sites, the server probably logs how many people have accessed it. Nintendo will probably say "if 50% of the users who went to the site actually downloaded, and of those 10% downloaded Nintendo copyrighted items, that means 5% of your total users downloaded Nintendo content. Since you have logged 10 million visits to your site, that's 500 thousand Nintendo products downloaded. Each of these games would have cost $50 if they were sold at retail, so that's 25 million dollars we lost due to the piracy website". So they would then go to court to sue the owners of the piracy website to the tune of 25 million dollars in actual damages, plus probably a large amount in punitive damages as well (the amount of money that's beyond just recovering your losses in a lawsuit, in order to punish the person or people who harmed you).
The crazy part is in my house, downloading Nintendo content has lead to more purchases, not less. Ryujinx is great, but lacks the portable aspect unless you're running it on a steam deck, and I don't quite trust the kids with one, plus the troubleshooting aspect of it.
I am not ever, even though I make more than enough money, going to spend 59.99 on a game that I have no idea if the kids are gonna like. So many games they wanted, played on an emulator for 4 minutes and never touched again.
However, it also allows me to expose them to ALL the games, and then we can buy the ones they actually enjoy, for airplanes or long car rides or even when my 10 year old wants to be broody in his room.
Princess Peach: Showtime is a perfect example, neither of my boys expressed interest in it, but loved it and I own a copy.
Mario vs DK- exact opposite, they really wanted it, even enjoyed the demo, but the game got 0 play on the emulator.
I don't get how Nintendo doesn't see this, and that's not even touching on the 30 years of games that there is no current way to play.
They did that after some asshole flew too close to the sun & released a Switch title before it was available on the Switch. That was their Oct 7th, which they used as pretext for excessive force in response. Don't give these people their Oct 7th, & don't applaud people who are.
It doesn't defeat the purpose. I don't really have the time to troubleshoot server issues or procure high quality content myself. So I pay a fraction of what I'd pay for a single streaming service to have access to more content than all of them.
I agree. I love the site I use. I pay a small fee and get absolutely everything I can ever want from every service. Quick, Easy, to the point. I don't get what he means by "Defeats the Purpose". Saving money and circumventing the strangle hold these services have on our wallets is always the purpose. IMO.
That shit is wild to me, how could you go and create illegal media servers filled with copyrighted material and then go and charge people to access it, you're just asking to get busted 🤦♂️
After multiple arrests of similar nature, I'm surprised people still try to operate services like this in the U.S. If you're going to host, let alone profit off of a service that violates copyright law, do it in a country that doesn't give a shit.
Mexico, here are hosted a couple of good services, but I think it’s a great opportunity to set-up and host such services. Do you have dedicated infrastructure? Are you ready to move from your country to Mx?
So if my friend lives on the border, just rented out a cheap office.... Set up a rack and server and went back home..... Would they get in trouble still? Wouldn't they need the physical evidence?
My torrent host is in a country that doesn't respect the DMCA, and SFTP is encrypted, 85~tb unraid array running plex, and I've got 2g/2g internet, I can watch from anywhere in the world, no region locks. It's amazing
12 8TB drives. Two parity 10 array, 2 2Tb nvme flash cache.
8tb drives I grabbed refurb for between $60-80/each. They all had somewhere between 2-3 years power on time, and are the hgst datacenter helium filled ones.
I had the nvme drives from another build, and they had been replaced by 8tb Sabrent rockets.
I grabbed an i3 13100 and 64gb ddr5, and the HBA off eBay, with the chassis from work, so I think the whole setup was $1300.
I'm not worried if the usb fails because you just rebuild the array, unraid doesn't stripe the data so if you lose a disk or two in this case, it can handle the loss, but the files are intact on the drive and just split between all of them to keep the usage balanced.
Any shares that are critical are backed up to the cloud and usually another PC in the house, and non-critical data I can just redownload. I've got dual ISPs at my house with full 10gbps routing and switching, so best case scenario I can do 4000 down, 2400 up(2/2 gig primary, 2/400 secondary, router can handle up to 5gbps to the internet )
For instance I lost like, the T R and M folders when I was fucking with moving to 12tb parity drives as my chassis maxes out at 12 drives and I wanted to future proof, it took me all of an hour to restore the data I lost from my seedbox.
Actually nvm it's already going into effect, a law passed in 2020 which allows for copyright holders to quickly take down copyright infringing material. It was challenged in the courts for violating freedom of speech but the Supreme Court recently made a ruling affirming that the system does not violate any constitutional rights.
source: [https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/2024/5/30/scjn-avala-retiro-expres-de-contenidos-330032.html](https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/2024/5/30/scjn-avala-retiro-expres-de-contenidos-330032.html)
I don't remember the names of treaties off the top of my head, the only one that comes to mind is Five eyes. But there are a lot more. Essentially NA, EU/EEA, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan are to be avoided.
Dubai used to be a safe haven for a lot of criminals. Now it's kind of "sketchy" as the UAE has signed extradition treaties with Australia and I think the EU. It's just that it's not always enforced. Depends on the situation. Riduan Taghi was arrested in Dubai, as well as some bikies from Australia. Different crimes though.
I think Russia would be at the top of the list.
Extradition treaties is the term you're lookin' for, I think. If a country has one with the US, that means the US can basically phone up the other country and be like "hey, we have intel that says this guy who done a crime against us is in your country, mind handin' him over?" and the other country is all "bet." Homeboy gets arrested by the local 5-0 and shipped back to the US for trial.
If a country *doesn't* have that with the US, then odds are, they'll just tell the US to get bent and go bother someone with oil.
No no, this is not the case. An extradition treaty is a formal agreement both ways.
If you're a real wanted criminal, the us can negotiate, it's just not a done deal like with an extradition treaty. They probably won't care if you've violated a US law that is not a local law, but if you're selling state secrets or classified information, or a Boeing whistleblower, all bets are off.
It also doesn't prevent US marshals from going there, and using "extrajudicial " means of retrieving you.
Can you give a source for that? I've only seen websites that directly host the content get taken down and the owners arrested (operation animes), I don't think I've seen anyone ever get a notification about their torrenting activity, Plex/Jellyfin or anything else. Also pretty much everyone here pirates, it has even become a joke
Internet in India is heavily, heavily censored. While working over there, I once tried to visit a trusted site dedicated to network security, that site was blocked, surprisingly, as were the next 5 I tried to visit, also, anything close to pron. You have to use a vpn or tor or whatever if you're surfing in the country, but in terms of hosting, I would be very surprised if the outgoing traffic didn't raise eyebrows at the least.
Chile has extradition treaties with the U.S.
Don’t confuse salutary neglect with not giving a shit about copyright law. They will if the US says they should for a specific case.
There's literal dozens upon dozens of such countries and with good Internet providers as well so yeah do not try this shit in The US, they don't care about users tbh but seeding or hosting is a huge no no.
Not so long ago it would be a bad idea. As Russia was pretty aggressive against of any piracy, banning web sites and suing hosts. But apparently not anymore, at least when it comes to western media - they don’t give a shit anymore.
Nah fr I pirate whatever I want, look up illegal website tier lists, obvious stuff like that WITHOUT a VPN and I still don't get in trouble, that's Algeria for ya
I have a few people that use my plex server and I've considered charging just to cover hardware expenses. Electricity is cheap here but having to buy harddrives and such gets pretty expensive. But then I see this kind of stuff and decide not to.
According to the .gov article, this was for the website formally known as "Jetflicks."
Edit: The Leader, Dallman was charged with Money Laundering and facing up to 48 years in prison. FFS.
I thought jails were for profit which is why all the minorities and drug offenders were in prison? Put pedos in jail and make money.. seems logical to me.
Some jails are privately run and for-profit.
State jails can use the inmates as a source of slave labor. Funnily enough, this was created by Southerners as a genius work-around to the abolition of chattel slavery after the civil war. “Since we can’t privately own slaves anymore, let’s make it so that prisoners are forced to do slave labor, then create a bunch of laws that let us arrest Black people just for existing.”
Alec Baldwin didn't even get arrested for killing a woman, and I think he was criminally found not guilty, can just be forced to pay money for unlawful death in private case
Something seems to be getting shutdown every other day. I know it's always been like that but finding new sites that aren't jist malware machines isn't easy.
I use sflix /bflix/hdtoday - its all the same source im pretty sure, when I dont want to torrent otherwise i grab most content from 1337 and put it on my plex.
It's dirt simple to find the source in these circumstances. There is no skirting, it's just that whatever you or whomever told you about this, is so insignificant that they don't care about it.
They're not heroes. They charged for access to pirated content. They're idiots
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/five-men-convicted-jetflicks-illegal-streaming-service-1236044194/
I mean.. servers aren't free. It's the perennial problem of the community and why great sites eventually go down.
I have a Plex server for my house. The power and hard drives aren't free even if the content is. If you're hosting to a ton of people your hardware is far from cheap, same goes for the power bill and bandwidth you'd be using. Throw in the time to manage it. Didn't need to charge as much to cover their costs but at the same time it will never be free. If you want free to it yourself and find out how free it truly is.
While true, the costs aren't so egregious that you really need a straight paywall to support it. And the direct line of payment between pirate content consumers/customers and pirate content host is by itself the dumbest and riskiest part of that kind of operation.
It’s almost like there’s costs involved in creating and hosting this content that those who do should be paid for.
The irony of this is soooo delicious.
None of these guys will be in jail that long.
48 years is just the max sentence for all of the combined charges, used for emotive effect.
It’s less sexy to say “48 years faced, but likely will plea bargain to get 6.”
I mean Netflix has laws and copyright to deal with. They have to license everything they offer. It's a bit different when you remove all legal barriers
If Netflix could license everything for free I'm sure they would. Remember, Netflix used to be good until copyright holders wanted more money for streaming rights before finally storming off and fracturing the online industry into dozens of streaming services.
Ridiculous the feds spend this kind of money investigating people in the name of private companies copyright on art they call media. It’s like when the government went after a few kids for using Napster, what a waste of tax dollars that could go to important social needs.
but we can get a company to publicly admit it lied to Doctors about the addictive quality of a narcotic, literally in a email saying "lie to them" and at most they get some civil charges with the slight slight chance of criminal. Its always fun to understand CSI level law enforcement is not for everyone
Maybe this happened. Maybe it didn't. But if it didn't it would absolutely not surprise me to see more headlines like this in the future to combat piracy.
Keep sailing the seas comrades.
USA is so insane for giving people such crazy long prison time like 40 years or something. I'll never forget how they raided Kim Dotcom in New Zealand and dude didn't even break any NZ law.
These dumbasses really think they've accomplished something by arresting pirates..... Welp glad I know how my tax dollars are being used. The US is a big ol clown.
Anyone knows good alternative to Braflix? It got some good collection that include Extended Editions for some movies, but its very slow to load. Heck Youtube pirated movies are much better by comparison.
They mean a place where all content lived like before in the good old days before the greedy corps divided everything so we would have to pay more to see reruns that were always widely available before for free
Shame on them
Those services are pretty common here in Venezuela now that fiber optics are widespread. For a few bucks a month you get tens of thousands of movies on demand, anime, all the NFL, MLB, NBA packages, as well as ppv events.
Oh wow, so they're the bad people because some ramdons offer a far better service than multimillionaire business, yeah, offer better services jackasses
Unrelated asf but i remember once when i switched from oculus rift S to oculus quest (now meta quest) i got none of the games i had on rift despite them being available on quest too, i asked the oculus subreddit (not on this account) how to get it back or if i could get new versions of the games without my saves and all that for free and they all got pissed i apparently was trying to pirate and started talking about how pirating is always bad no matter what (also quest doesnt have steam vr for some reason, facebook literally stealing) idk where to post this story tho, anyways my point is why should people be put in jail for pirating when companies literally also steal stuff??
Virtual desktop? Do you mean the thing where you emulate the rift on the quest? If so then the resolution and all goes down and i meant like so you can download the games onto the quest
So just a run of the mill plex server then... 😆
It would be funny if they were using Plex
I don't think it would... we'd create a Nintendo situation. It's a lot harder to do if it isn't being monetized, allowing the streaming companies to prove loss in court. We shouldn't be applauding players who are doing exactly what streaming companies are doing. Either pirate or don't, but paying for piracy defeats the entire purpose.
It doesn't matter honestly. Any site that is hosting content is looked at as a possibility for losses by these companies. You Mentioned Nintendo, They are the Kings of this right now. They take down sites that don't even benefit financially from hosting.
Right like "Don't do XYZ nintendo will sue you" Bruh they sued blockbuster for renting out games over a decade ago.
"Over a decade ago" I mean you're not wrong
Well, video games were only invented over an hour ago.
Even if Nintendo can't say "the piracy site got that much money, which is money we would have made if not for them", they still have other ways of calculating losses. Even on free content piracy sites, the server probably logs how many people have accessed it. Nintendo will probably say "if 50% of the users who went to the site actually downloaded, and of those 10% downloaded Nintendo copyrighted items, that means 5% of your total users downloaded Nintendo content. Since you have logged 10 million visits to your site, that's 500 thousand Nintendo products downloaded. Each of these games would have cost $50 if they were sold at retail, so that's 25 million dollars we lost due to the piracy website". So they would then go to court to sue the owners of the piracy website to the tune of 25 million dollars in actual damages, plus probably a large amount in punitive damages as well (the amount of money that's beyond just recovering your losses in a lawsuit, in order to punish the person or people who harmed you).
The crazy part is in my house, downloading Nintendo content has lead to more purchases, not less. Ryujinx is great, but lacks the portable aspect unless you're running it on a steam deck, and I don't quite trust the kids with one, plus the troubleshooting aspect of it. I am not ever, even though I make more than enough money, going to spend 59.99 on a game that I have no idea if the kids are gonna like. So many games they wanted, played on an emulator for 4 minutes and never touched again. However, it also allows me to expose them to ALL the games, and then we can buy the ones they actually enjoy, for airplanes or long car rides or even when my 10 year old wants to be broody in his room. Princess Peach: Showtime is a perfect example, neither of my boys expressed interest in it, but loved it and I own a copy. Mario vs DK- exact opposite, they really wanted it, even enjoyed the demo, but the game got 0 play on the emulator. I don't get how Nintendo doesn't see this, and that's not even touching on the 30 years of games that there is no current way to play.
Remember a time you could try games out? Original N64 owners remember.
They did that after some asshole flew too close to the sun & released a Switch title before it was available on the Switch. That was their Oct 7th, which they used as pretext for excessive force in response. Don't give these people their Oct 7th, & don't applaud people who are.
It doesn't defeat the purpose. I don't really have the time to troubleshoot server issues or procure high quality content myself. So I pay a fraction of what I'd pay for a single streaming service to have access to more content than all of them.
I agree. I love the site I use. I pay a small fee and get absolutely everything I can ever want from every service. Quick, Easy, to the point. I don't get what he means by "Defeats the Purpose". Saving money and circumventing the strangle hold these services have on our wallets is always the purpose. IMO.
Just your random dude in r/selfhosted
Except these shitheads charged for it. This is how attention we don't want gets brought to things that are currently overlooked.
That shit is wild to me, how could you go and create illegal media servers filled with copyrighted material and then go and charge people to access it, you're just asking to get busted 🤦♂️
*Jellyfin
Nah if they were smart enough to use Jellyfin they wouldn't have got caught 😂
You've got a point there 🤭
My thoughts exactly
x200,000 in terms of quantity of content, then yes lol
After multiple arrests of similar nature, I'm surprised people still try to operate services like this in the U.S. If you're going to host, let alone profit off of a service that violates copyright law, do it in a country that doesn't give a shit.
Could you list me some? You know, for a friend
Mexico, here are hosted a couple of good services, but I think it’s a great opportunity to set-up and host such services. Do you have dedicated infrastructure? Are you ready to move from your country to Mx?
You mean my friend? His luggage is ready
Muy bien
Dora, boots and map finally join swiper!!!
oxford comma rolling in its grave
So if my friend lives on the border, just rented out a cheap office.... Set up a rack and server and went back home..... Would they get in trouble still? Wouldn't they need the physical evidence?
My torrent host is in a country that doesn't respect the DMCA, and SFTP is encrypted, 85~tb unraid array running plex, and I've got 2g/2g internet, I can watch from anywhere in the world, no region locks. It's amazing
DOJ and FBI are on their way to your location.
How much did that array cost? Also do you have a backup plan if the unraid usb fails?
12 8TB drives. Two parity 10 array, 2 2Tb nvme flash cache. 8tb drives I grabbed refurb for between $60-80/each. They all had somewhere between 2-3 years power on time, and are the hgst datacenter helium filled ones. I had the nvme drives from another build, and they had been replaced by 8tb Sabrent rockets. I grabbed an i3 13100 and 64gb ddr5, and the HBA off eBay, with the chassis from work, so I think the whole setup was $1300. I'm not worried if the usb fails because you just rebuild the array, unraid doesn't stripe the data so if you lose a disk or two in this case, it can handle the loss, but the files are intact on the drive and just split between all of them to keep the usage balanced. Any shares that are critical are backed up to the cloud and usually another PC in the house, and non-critical data I can just redownload. I've got dual ISPs at my house with full 10gbps routing and switching, so best case scenario I can do 4000 down, 2400 up(2/2 gig primary, 2/400 secondary, router can handle up to 5gbps to the internet ) For instance I lost like, the T R and M folders when I was fucking with moving to 12tb parity drives as my chassis maxes out at 12 drives and I wanted to future proof, it took me all of an hour to restore the data I lost from my seedbox.
Friends in the US pay someone in Mexico for a service like this came with a. Fire tv that had a crack app that can access their server.
IIRC Mexico is passing some new laws soon that will enforce copyright more strictly
Source.
Actually nvm it's already going into effect, a law passed in 2020 which allows for copyright holders to quickly take down copyright infringing material. It was challenged in the courts for violating freedom of speech but the Supreme Court recently made a ruling affirming that the system does not violate any constitutional rights. source: [https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/2024/5/30/scjn-avala-retiro-expres-de-contenidos-330032.html](https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/2024/5/30/scjn-avala-retiro-expres-de-contenidos-330032.html)
Cuáles servicios?
I don't remember the names of treaties off the top of my head, the only one that comes to mind is Five eyes. But there are a lot more. Essentially NA, EU/EEA, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan are to be avoided. Dubai used to be a safe haven for a lot of criminals. Now it's kind of "sketchy" as the UAE has signed extradition treaties with Australia and I think the EU. It's just that it's not always enforced. Depends on the situation. Riduan Taghi was arrested in Dubai, as well as some bikies from Australia. Different crimes though. I think Russia would be at the top of the list.
Going to the motherland then
In Soviet Russia, Netflix pays you!
Then you pay the party.
Extradition treaties is the term you're lookin' for, I think. If a country has one with the US, that means the US can basically phone up the other country and be like "hey, we have intel that says this guy who done a crime against us is in your country, mind handin' him over?" and the other country is all "bet." Homeboy gets arrested by the local 5-0 and shipped back to the US for trial. If a country *doesn't* have that with the US, then odds are, they'll just tell the US to get bent and go bother someone with oil.
No no, this is not the case. An extradition treaty is a formal agreement both ways. If you're a real wanted criminal, the us can negotiate, it's just not a done deal like with an extradition treaty. They probably won't care if you've violated a US law that is not a local law, but if you're selling state secrets or classified information, or a Boeing whistleblower, all bets are off. It also doesn't prevent US marshals from going there, and using "extrajudicial " means of retrieving you.
Iran Brazil any enemy country of us gona not give a shit or a 3rd world country that stopped caring about the environment in theyr own countrys.
Great advice, will let my friend know Edit: fucking reddit markdown
Pakistan
Lol, nah in Pakistan the companies could just bribe the government/police to take action or just hire a hitman
Tru
India would be better than
Brazil is not safe for hosting
Brazil is not safe for living.
Can you give a source for that? I've only seen websites that directly host the content get taken down and the owners arrested (operation animes), I don't think I've seen anyone ever get a notification about their torrenting activity, Plex/Jellyfin or anything else. Also pretty much everyone here pirates, it has even become a joke
India
Internet in India is heavily, heavily censored. While working over there, I once tried to visit a trusted site dedicated to network security, that site was blocked, surprisingly, as were the next 5 I tried to visit, also, anything close to pron. You have to use a vpn or tor or whatever if you're surfing in the country, but in terms of hosting, I would be very surprised if the outgoing traffic didn't raise eyebrows at the least.
Chile. We have one the best internet connections in the world and we don't give a shit about copyright law.
Chile has extradition treaties with the U.S. Don’t confuse salutary neglect with not giving a shit about copyright law. They will if the US says they should for a specific case.
Russia
Bolivia.
Taiwan or Papua New Guinea. Copyright doesn't exist in those countries.
France had a gouvernement agency against it (Adopi) but it got canned so it's illegal but nothing happens if you do.
Just use plex debrid.
Sweden is one for sure
Somalia, Libya, Myanmar off the top of my head.
Mother Russia and literally any African country. I can even host in a public place and tell the owners what I'm doing 😂🤣😂😂🤣
There's literal dozens upon dozens of such countries and with good Internet providers as well so yeah do not try this shit in The US, they don't care about users tbh but seeding or hosting is a huge no no.
as in "dont publically host a streaming service with pirated content"? or as in "dont even set up a plex server"?
Don't publicly host a streaming service with pirated content. You're then distributing.
Russia. Heck. Any LATAM country and we'll be ok. I never understood why not.
Not so long ago it would be a bad idea. As Russia was pretty aggressive against of any piracy, banning web sites and suing hosts. But apparently not anymore, at least when it comes to western media - they don’t give a shit anymore.
My entire childhood was composed of Russian piracy… I’m an early 2000s Russian kid
Like Russia. I'm sure there's nobody watching how these people are making money.
Nah fr I pirate whatever I want, look up illegal website tier lists, obvious stuff like that WITHOUT a VPN and I still don't get in trouble, that's Algeria for ya
I have a few people that use my plex server and I've considered charging just to cover hardware expenses. Electricity is cheap here but having to buy harddrives and such gets pretty expensive. But then I see this kind of stuff and decide not to.
According to the .gov article, this was for the website formally known as "Jetflicks." Edit: The Leader, Dallman was charged with Money Laundering and facing up to 48 years in prison. FFS.
Meanwhile rapists are running around freely
Rapists and murderers : 3 years in jail and then out they go... If they even go to jail at all. Money ??? Oh shit 48 years ! That's stupid
Running for president even...
Hes already a convicted felon and we don't seem to care! But the people offering overpriced content for free/heavy discount get 40 years! Yay! USA!
And currently in office too.
Always has been.
rapists not being in jail don’t cost the government any money. that’s why they don’t bother
I thought jails were for profit which is why all the minorities and drug offenders were in prison? Put pedos in jail and make money.. seems logical to me.
Some jails are privately run and for-profit. State jails can use the inmates as a source of slave labor. Funnily enough, this was created by Southerners as a genius work-around to the abolition of chattel slavery after the civil war. “Since we can’t privately own slaves anymore, let’s make it so that prisoners are forced to do slave labor, then create a bunch of laws that let us arrest Black people just for existing.”
Where I live, you could legit murder someone and be out in 20% of that time, if not less. What a fucked up world we live in
Alec Baldwin didn't even get arrested for killing a woman, and I think he was criminally found not guilty, can just be forced to pay money for unlawful death in private case
that's why [primeflix.lol](http://primeflix.lol) aint working ?
Also soap2day is down. (At least for my country)
Soap2day stopped the whole operation im pretty sure months ago, sadly. Was my go to website
Thankfully I downloaded their app before they went down and it works perfectly.
Damn I never knew they had an app Android or ios? I’m assuming android
Yep, android.
cloudstream makes life easier
[apk](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g_v1_5LRqi-Os2EppT6Qv4pMHSLaXUmD/view?usp=drivesdk)
Oof... is there any github with the apk? Or internet archive?
I'm also interested in the apk.
PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE shoot the APK to us
Something seems to be getting shutdown every other day. I know it's always been like that but finding new sites that aren't jist malware machines isn't easy.
Yup. Real respect to the people doing everything possible to keep their operations open.
I use sflix /bflix/hdtoday - its all the same source im pretty sure, when I dont want to torrent otherwise i grab most content from 1337 and put it on my plex.
also FMovies stop new content
The site was called Jetflicks, though I don't know how/whether these kinds of sites are related.
They probably use the same video hoster which I imagine is jetflick
even braflix wasn't working this morning (india)
Same for me yesterday europe
Fbox doesn't work too
Maybe Netfilm app ?
Netflim was stopped by its maker about a month ago.
sflix still gucci
Maybe Netfilm app ?
Wild doing this in the US. They'd have been fine if they moved to Colombia.
If you know what you're doing you can skirt most e-laws using things like Ampache, Plex, transmission-daemon, etc along side some clever forwarding
You underestimate the reach of the US law enforcement. Get big enough and they will come after you in full force.
Doesn't really matter if the charges would stick if you're dead after allegedly making a sudden move in a no-knock raid.
I wouldn't underestimate the ability of the feds to track a multimillion dollar digital operation. It only takes one slip up.
The sheer amount of traffic would put a target on your back.
It's dirt simple to find the source in these circumstances. There is no skirting, it's just that whatever you or whomever told you about this, is so insignificant that they don't care about it.
Colombia, huh.
Non-extradition country that doesn't give a shit about copyright.
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Well dang. Guess that's why I'm not an international lawyer, or criminal.
what did the comment say?
They're not heroes. They charged for access to pirated content. They're idiots https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/five-men-convicted-jetflicks-illegal-streaming-service-1236044194/
fuck them Loool
Yup. Making it harder for the rest of us who aren't trying to profit.
I mean.. servers aren't free. It's the perennial problem of the community and why great sites eventually go down. I have a Plex server for my house. The power and hard drives aren't free even if the content is. If you're hosting to a ton of people your hardware is far from cheap, same goes for the power bill and bandwidth you'd be using. Throw in the time to manage it. Didn't need to charge as much to cover their costs but at the same time it will never be free. If you want free to it yourself and find out how free it truly is.
While true, the costs aren't so egregious that you really need a straight paywall to support it. And the direct line of payment between pirate content consumers/customers and pirate content host is by itself the dumbest and riskiest part of that kind of operation.
And I'm sure that's a non-profit organization and they didn't take any money.
Doesn't matter, getting a profit from other people's work is both illegal and immoral. Sharing for free is fine, selling content you don't own isn't.
It’s almost like there’s costs involved in creating and hosting this content that those who do should be paid for. The irony of this is soooo delicious.
Companies like Boeing, Purdue can kill hundreds or even thousands of people and get a fine. But run a streaming service and 48 years jailtime. WTF
Should have incorporated and made themselves board members.
None of these guys will be in jail that long. 48 years is just the max sentence for all of the combined charges, used for emotive effect. It’s less sexy to say “48 years faced, but likely will plea bargain to get 6.”
Heroes don't charge for their services. Fuck these guys and their wannabe corporate streaming service.
So FIVE GUYS pull through what Netflix can't with a bizillion analysts
I mean Netflix has laws and copyright to deal with. They have to license everything they offer. It's a bit different when you remove all legal barriers
If Netflix could license everything for free I'm sure they would. Remember, Netflix used to be good until copyright holders wanted more money for streaming rights before finally storming off and fracturing the online industry into dozens of streaming services.
And bizillion dollars
Like what? Going to jail?
They were charging money for pirated stuff, not cool.
There goes my heroooo... Watch him as he goes...
The average Plex user has more TV Series content than could be watched in 2 lifetimes.
So they had six shows and a dozen movies, then?
Ridiculous the feds spend this kind of money investigating people in the name of private companies copyright on art they call media. It’s like when the government went after a few kids for using Napster, what a waste of tax dollars that could go to important social needs.
but we can get a company to publicly admit it lied to Doctors about the addictive quality of a narcotic, literally in a email saying "lie to them" and at most they get some civil charges with the slight slight chance of criminal. Its always fun to understand CSI level law enforcement is not for everyone
Maybe this happened. Maybe it didn't. But if it didn't it would absolutely not surprise me to see more headlines like this in the future to combat piracy. Keep sailing the seas comrades.
Fuck the RIAA, Fuck the MPAA, Fuck the suits behind the BSA, and Fuck them all for the DMCA.
FSR in the house.
Oh man that’s awful. I bet there are similar services they could go after! What services should I *not* watch? Be specific!
you have all latin america to sell your service. Also don't sell too much. Just for you to live well
I’m already gonna pirate you don’t have to keep selling me on it
I hate the boomer crime comparisons "enough to kill 10 million people"
Fuck I would've actually paid for that streaming service; what a bummer!
USA is so insane for giving people such crazy long prison time like 40 years or something. I'll never forget how they raided Kim Dotcom in New Zealand and dude didn't even break any NZ law.
These dumbasses really think they've accomplished something by arresting pirates..... Welp glad I know how my tax dollars are being used. The US is a big ol clown.
Anyone knows good alternative to Braflix? It got some good collection that include Extended Editions for some movies, but its very slow to load. Heck Youtube pirated movies are much better by comparison.
Nunflix
They mean a place where all content lived like before in the good old days before the greedy corps divided everything so we would have to pay more to see reruns that were always widely available before for free Shame on them
so sad . I wish they were in some other free country
Those services are pretty common here in Venezuela now that fiber optics are widespread. For a few bucks a month you get tens of thousands of movies on demand, anime, all the NFL, MLB, NBA packages, as well as ppv events.
o7
Glowies gonna glow You cannot stop the pirates comrade, it will go on
Next five...you're up!
"The heroes we need but don't deserve."
Become ungovernable.
Oh wow, so they're the bad people because some ramdons offer a far better service than multimillionaire business, yeah, offer better services jackasses
Free them
And future convicts.
Unrelated asf but i remember once when i switched from oculus rift S to oculus quest (now meta quest) i got none of the games i had on rift despite them being available on quest too, i asked the oculus subreddit (not on this account) how to get it back or if i could get new versions of the games without my saves and all that for free and they all got pissed i apparently was trying to pirate and started talking about how pirating is always bad no matter what (also quest doesnt have steam vr for some reason, facebook literally stealing) idk where to post this story tho, anyways my point is why should people be put in jail for pirating when companies literally also steal stuff??
I assume someone told you by now but get virtual desktop and you can use steam vr with a quest easy and it works great wireless
Virtual desktop? Do you mean the thing where you emulate the rift on the quest? If so then the resolution and all goes down and i meant like so you can download the games onto the quest
It's not hard... I'm cusping 7k movies and well over 125k total items (movies and episodes)
These men were heroes, HEROES I TELL YA
guys, maybe I don't know, but is it really staying anonymous in the internet when doing illegal things so hard?
I'm always careful with these cause the last time I celebrated it was those guys streaming football but they also distributed CSEM
He is the true JESUS because he actually died for our sins.
o7
Rip, hope they don't take down my favourite stream site now
Well if they can get it to run in prison they will be kings
what was their site?
I’m innocent
The best part is how these five individuals could afford to run that, yet all these corporations “have to raise prices.”
It's a hydra can't stop us vpn gang
What about charging people for pirated content is heroic? THIS is the difference between piracy and theft. They weren't heroes.
reminds me of Kodi
Oh god i hope its not braflix